 God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.  Poetry for Home and School ... - Page 761846Full view - About this book
 | Edward Thring - English language - 1868 - 256 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that...up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...Getting and spending, we lay waste onr powers ; Little we see in Natnre that is onrs ; We have given onr hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that bares her...to the moon ; The winds that will be howling at all honrs, And are np-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are ont of tnne... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; Little we see in Nature that is ours ; "We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea, that...flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; in. It moves us not. — Great God ! I 'd rather be A Pagan, suckled in a creed outworn ; So might... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers Little we see in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that...The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gatherM now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...soon ; Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Little we see in Nature that is ours : We have given our hearts away — a sordid boon ! This sea...The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we're out of tune ; It moves us... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1869 - 314 pages
...powers : Little we see in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! The sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will...upgathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pages
...thee friend or brother " Brother," say, " let 's be forgivingLive in love ; 'tis pleasant living." SONNET.— ( Wordsworth.) The world is too much with...up-gathered now, like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I 'd rather be A pagan, suckled in a... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste ourpowers ; Little we see in nature that is ours ; We have nt to the bodily sense, Didst vaiiish from my thought....beguiling melody, So sweet we know not we are listening everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. — Great God ! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers : Little we see in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that...up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, tor everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a... | |
 | 1871 - 832 pages
...soon Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; Little is left in nature that is ours : AVe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon. This sea that...— The winds that will be howling at all hours, And now upgatherod lio like sleeping flowers — For this, for everything, wo are out of tune: It moves... | |
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